All right, we've made it to [music] week number six of PT308/508, [music] inner healing. And we've been looking at biblical healing. I want to uh the topic of this video is renouncing bondage and walking in freedom.
We want to understand what renouncing the bondage is and walking in freedom. And so the theme has always been John 8:36. So the son has has set you free and you'll be free indeed.
What I want to go over in the next hour is is by the end of this hour you will have a understanding of what spiritual bondage is, how to renounce it through Christ and practical steps to walk daily in the freedom Jesus provides. So I want to welcome everyone as you get settled and get ready. I hope you have your journals.
I hope you've been writing down in the journal in the last five weeks that have been able to help you and get you to grasp what it means to have biblical inner healing. So today we're diving into a powerful biblical truth. Jesus came to set us free from every form of bondage.
The bondage is sin, fear, addiction, guilt, generational patterns, or anything that holds us back from living fully for God. So, what does the word freedom mean to you personally? Some say may say it's peace.
Another may say it's joy. Another of release. Some may even say doever do whatever I want.
The dover do whatever I want statement. It's it it's it seems to be where they want to do whatever they like. And what do I mean by that?
They they think if if I'm if I have freedom, I don't have to listen to this or I don't have to do what everybody else is doing. And so they feel like I can have this freedom to do whatever. Well, as we do whatever we want in our own freedom in in our own way, it always ends in ruin.
And that's because they didn't include Jesus. So if you want to live with this freedom of doing whatever you want, we need to find out what God wants and what Jesus is desiring for us to do. and not just go on our own ways because actually doing the the opposite of that it's really saying I really want to sin without the consequences.
I want to I want to sin freely without the price. That price ends up where you're in bondage. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.
And so the opposite of eternal life, the opposite of that freedom in Christ Jesus is bondage, is darkness, is separation from God. And that's where we get bound. So many people, even believers, live in hidden bondage because they don't fully embrace Christ's liberation.
>> [clears throat] >> In Galatians 5:1 declares, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. " Since he set us free, then it goes on and says, "Stand firm then and do not let yourself be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. " Understanding the bondage, it it allows us to make sure that we don't get enslaved by it anymore.
Bondage is anything that enslaves us, preventing us from fulfilling God's purpose. The Bible describes it as slavery to sin, fear, or false beliefs. As we go into seeing this what Jesus said, he came he came to set us free.
And when he sets us free, we're free indeed. And that is the goal. That is the purpose of God.
He wants us to be set free from all the lies, from all the the hardships and the pains that sin continues to engulf us with. He knows that the sin weighs us down and it captures us and then it it binds us and now we're in bondage and we feel like we can't shake it. We can't get released.
We can't get free. We can't have that freedom, that liberation that only Jesus can do. So Jesus came to set the captives free.
See the Jews, they were never slaves, right? That's what they they they replied to Jesus when he says, "Uh, verily truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. So if the son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
" So why do the people deny their bondage? like the the Jews, they were like to to the Jewish crowd that Jesus is speaking to, we're we're not slaves anymore. We're we're not in Egypt.
We've heard of our ancestors and the generation of how Moses had to to to lead them out of Egypt and and and through the wilderness and they finally got to the Red Sea and and and and the Nile and and it and it finally it it it it opened up and our our our ancestors were able to cross the Red Sea on dry land um deep in the in the crevices of the sea and got out and then after they got over on on the safe side. Then the soldiers that were coming after them, the water fell and collapsed on them and killed them all. And so we we we haven't had that in a long time.
We're free. But Jesus was pointing out, no, the the the bondage that you're in is that you're not believing the word of God. You're not believing in me.
You're not believing the one that was sent to declare the truth. And so you've been bound by by the the master of your life which is the father of lies which is the root is Satan. [clears throat] And so Jesus said I came to set those free.
And when Jesus sets you free you are completely free indeed. So in Hebrews chapter 2:1 15 it says, "Therefore since the children share the in the flesh and blood, he himself likewise also parttook of the same, that through death he might render powerlessly powerless him who had the power of death, that is the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery. all their lives.
So Jesus came to set us free from the death that we were in. Who had the power of death over our lives? The enemy, Satan.
He had us captured. He had us in bondage. He had us in chains.
And Jesus, he came to set us free. In Romans 6:16-18, it says, "Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey? Whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness.
But thanks be to God that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. We we will always have a master in our life. We need a master.
You can have the the brutal killing evil, the one that wants to cause death and destruction and wants to kill, steal, and destroy your life. You can have that as your master. Or you can have the master of the universe, the creator who has brought us life, eternal life that came to to give us abundant life.
It's it's your choice. Do you want to have one master that wants to only destroy you and hurt you? Or do you want to have the loving master that's going to be kind and lead you into to still waters and lead you into places that that are going to be safe to where you can lay down in green pastures as it it it demonstrates in Psalms 23 of the good shepherd.
Jesus was referred to as the good shepherd. So we can look back at what God did for the Israelites in Exodus 6 verse 6. God promises Israel, I will rescue you from their bondage.
That's an overshadowing of Christ's deliverance. Remember Moses, he was instructed to go tell the people to put the blood over the doorpost of the lamb. And as they did that, that would have the angel of death over pass that that had been obedient to put the lamb's blood over the doorpost.
And that's where we get the Passover, the Passover of of of the angel of death because of the obedience of those that listen to God's command through his prophet Moses, Jesus. He is the new lamb and we are to have the blood covered over our lives. That way when the enemy comes, when the angel of death comes, when when trials come, when circumstances show up, it has to go over us because Jesus is our shield.
Jesus protects us in our life. Sadly, bondage bondage often starts with sin giving the enemy a foothold. But Christ has already broken its power.
So in our freedom, in our salvation through Christ, as Jesus is is restoring us back to freedom, the purpose that he's always intended for us, we need to renounce bondage. What do I mean by that? So to experience freedom, we must actively renounce the formal reject and declare against bondage.
We got to reject it. We need to declare against it that I am not bound anymore by those those habits, by those addictions, by that lifestyle, by the things that were were in darkness. I I am no longer a participant.
I'm not made for that. I was never made for that. And now I'm new in Christ Jesus.
And so now I'm going to live in the purpose and the will of God. Here's a key scripture that we need to declare in our freedom. Galatians 5 verse 1.
It was for freedom that Christ set us free. Therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery. Another one that we read was in fir in 2 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4 and 5 how we demolish strongholds by taking captive uh thoughts captive and and giving them to Christ.
We we we need to demolish those strongholds. We need to demolish those those those behaviors, those those those temptations by by saying, "No, I'm not going to think about that. I'm not going to go any further with that.
I'm not going to entertain that thought, but instead, I'm going to submit my thoughts to Christ in this situation. " James chapter 4, if you ever have a chance, read the book of James from chapter 1 all the way to six. It is incredible.
It's one of my favorite favorite books when it it when it's giving uh clarity of what it means to now live in Christ. In James 4:1 through 8, it says, "What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is it the source your is is not the source your pleasures that wage war against your members?
You lust and do not have, so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You not You do not have because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive because you ask with wrong motives so that you may spend it on your own pleasures. You adulteress, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Or do you think that the scripture speaks to no purpose? He is jealously desires the spirit which he has made to dwell in us. But he gives a greater grace.
Therefore, it says, "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Submit, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Drw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. " That is a strong declaration of what we should be so violently against anything that is is is hindering our walk with God, that's hindering our life of purpose that he's designed for us.
That we should pay attention to the the quarrels and and the fighting and and even to the point of where we even have murderous thoughts. Have you ever had a murderous thought? I have.
I live in Los Angeles and I drive in in in traffic and there's times where people are cutting you in and and not letting you go over and it's just a a madness at times where everybody is so so focused on just trying to get to their destination and they don't care who's around them. It's all about them. And there's been times where I just like, oh my goodness, I just want to but by God's grace, I haven't crashed into anybody and and especially uh killed anybody.
It but that that occurs. Why? Because of my selfishness, my desire to get where I want to go.
And it doesn't matter about anybody else at the moment. But we need to take a breath and we need to reflect on what is my purpose. Is it all about me?
Is it always about myself, the unholy trinity, me, myself, and I? Or do we operate with with with the father's heart of looking around and seeing these are God's children that he loves, and he wants to participate in their life, but they're so focused. Maybe my life being different by being uh courteous and allowing other people, oh, go ahead.
that might change their lives. My friend, he's a he's a millionaire out here in in in Los Angeles and um he he came into wealth and and he bought his first Lamborghini and he came from the streets where he lived in a van at one time. And so he started making good money in the in the company that he worked in to the point where he made so much money that he had millions and he always wanted to buy a Lamborghini.
So, he bought this Lamborghini. His first week of having this Lamborghini, he gets a a a a crazy call from his younger brother that he just got in a car accident about 10 miles away from him. And so, he gets into his car, his Lamborghini, and he's trying to get to his brother.
And as he's going, there's traffic because of the of of the the pileup of of the accident in front of uh the the traffic on the freeway. And so my friend goes onto the side of of the freeway uh lanes and he's trying to cut over to try to get in front because his brother, he doesn't know if he's dying or what has happened. All he knows is he's in an accident.
So as he's going forward and as he's he's trying to get closer and closer, there's a lady that notices in her mirror and so she tries to block him and starts yelling and cussing at him. You think you're this because you have a Lamborghini. you need to to get back in line and get in and and he just kept he didn't listen to her.
He just kept getting focused because it was about his brother at the time, not about what this lady was saying. He finally gets edging past her and she almost uh scrapes into his car and he finally gets to his brother. He gets out of the car and he has a white shirt, but he doesn't care.
He grabs his brother and he's helping him out of the car as he's in this wreckage and blood is all over him and the the cars are are trying to go around it and going around it and finally that lady remember that was trying to block him. She looks and notices that was the guy in the Lamborghini that I was trying to prevent from going forward. I didn't.
And she she stopped and said, "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. And he just waved her by.
It's okay. It's okay. It's my brother.
It's okay. And she drove away. I'm sure she drove away realizing I shouldn't judge what somebody's trying to do to get forward in this mad traffic.
They may need to get somewhere that's important to a loved one. Maybe their loved one, maybe their family is the one that was in the accident. So what I'm saying is that we need to pay attention to our selfishness.
If we're not, then we can get into bondage. So how do we get out of this bondage? Renouncing the bondage by confessing and repenting.
[clears throat] We need to admit the specific areas of bondage to God. In 1 John 1:9, it says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. " That's everything.
Everything that's unrighteous, Jesus will forgive us. All he asked for us to do is confess. Remember as I shared earlier about Adam and Eve and how they sinned and they were the first sinners.
They were the first ones that were disobedient to God and how they they covered themselves and they hid from from God and God was showing up and God said, "Hey, Adam, where are you? " Adam was was was was trying to hide from God. God knew where he was, but he was calling out to Adam, "Where are you?
" Because God wanted a confession from Adam. That's what he wants from us. He wants us to declare the bondage, those areas that have captured us.
He wants us to ask for forgiveness. And it says if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of all our unrighteousness. Renounce verbally.
Speak out against it in Jesus' name. For an example, you can say, "I renounce the spirit of fear or addiction or bitterness in Jesus' name. " What we need to do is we need to forgive and release.
Forgive others and yourself to break bitterness chains. The hardest person to forgive is the one in the mirror. That's you.
I know it has been for me. I I've had people that I've I've gotten to a chance for them to forgive me and we move on and we're laughing. We're we're hanging out.
We're having a good time. But there comes a time where I haven't forgiven myself to where I can't even hang out by myself. And so it took a long time for me to finally forgive myself for all the things that I've done.
If God could forgive, you should forgive yourself. Then we need to replace the lies with truth and declare God's word over that area. Here here's a here's a rendition.
Here's a sample of a prayer that you can pray out loud. And it's it's good for you to pray it out loud. You can you can pray like this.
Heavenly Father, I confess any bondage in my life. And then you can name the spec the specific uh uncomfortable as it is. You can you can name whatever that that bondage is.
Whatever that sin that addiction that you've been in and ask God, I repent and turn from it. In Jesus' name, I renounce every chain of sin, fear, or generational curse. I declare that whom the son sets free is free indeed.
Fill me with your Holy Spirit. Amen. Not too long, not too elaborate, but to the point and to God, with a sincere heart heart.
Don't just say it just to say it, but really mean it from your heart. Really mean that you really want to be released from this bondage. And then let's walk in that freedom.
Freedom isn't a one-time event. It's a daily walk empowered by the Holy Spirit. Here's a key scripture if that we can look to in Galatians chapter 5 verse 16-1 17.
But I say walk by the spirit. That's capital S meaning the Holy Spirit. And you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
For the flesh sets its desires against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. for these are in opposition to one another so that you may not do the things that please you. When you submit to the spirit of God and you start to walk in his spirit, it's going to [clears throat] be a delight.
You're going to be pleased. You're going to feel guiltless. You're going to feel that freedom that we all desire and need.
So when we're obedient to the spirit of God, as the spirit is is counseling us, as it's communicating with us, as it's comforting us, as it's interceding for us, and it is wanting to live through us, and its fruit is is being uh barren uh in in in our lives, there is nothing like it. And it's free. It's given to us by his grace.
So in Galatians 5:22-2 it says, "But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such such things there is no law. " Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the spirit, let us also walk by the spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another. As God's starting to to to to work in your life, it's going to be where you're going to you're just going to love.
it. You just love people, people that you have never met, people that you've never loved before. Now all of a sudden, you have a love for them.
You're you're you're just drawn to love the the the person that's afflicted. You're drawn to love people that have have been even an enemy to you. At one time, believe it or not, I was a gang member and I was in a gang and I had rivals and and I didn't like them.
They sure didn't like me. But when Jesus took me out of the neighborhood that I was in and I I ended up at a at a at at a place called Set Free where I met Jesus and encountered him. Later on, God put a burden in my heart, a passion to go back to the city where I had done so much darkness.
And I wanted to bring the marvelous light of of the gospel to people. And as I did that, I I couldn't say selectively only this group, only these people. But it came a point where I was able to lead people to Christ that hated me, that didn't like me at all.
And they said, "I don't know what what it is about you, Kirk, but you're different. You your your joy, your peace, the the things that you have in in in your continence of your of your character. I I'm drawn to that.
" And that's why I started coming to your Bible study. That's why I came to your church. I knew who you were and I didn't like you before, but man, you have changed.
You know what I get to tell him? It's Jesus. I'm a new creation.
All things are passed away. All things become new. And then I'd ask for forgiveness.
And we become good friends. That's what the fruit of the spirit does is that it walks us into life where we start to love people and where we're loving them, we have joy. And when we have joy, we have peace.
And when we have peace, we're we're more patient with people. And then when we have that patience, kindness helps us to to get through those moments better. And then the goodness comes and and then the faithfulness because we just want to keep going and keep doing it.
And then it's just gentle and and now it's not as hard work because God is is is massaging. God is starting to soften their hearts and and and mending their brokenness. And then we have better self-control to where we're not snappy.
We're not saying rude things. We're we're not selfish anymore. And as we do that, we're not going to break the laws of God.
We're we're we're going to keep his commands. If we love God with all our heart, mind, and soul and love one another, we fulfill the law. And that's what the spirit of God helps us to do.
So, as we are getting out of this bondage, we're walking in this freedom. We're now in his spirit that is filling us. Now, he's going to operate these gifts, these fruits in our lives to where now we can share them with other people.
that freedom that you have, you need to guard it. You need to declare the scriptures. Here's a scripture you should declare when you feel shame or condemnation or lies coming at you is Romans 8 1-2.
Romans 8:1-2 says, "There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Because through Christ Jesus, the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. You're not condemned anymore.
" I have a a t-shirt that I wear that a friend made. It says, "Jesus dropped the charges. " See, I I'm guilty of my sin.
arrest me. I should I should be locked up. I should I should be thrown into hell.
But by God sending his son, Jesus, Jesus came and he took the charges of my my sin of how I broke the law and he paid the price to where now I've been set free. So now there's no more condemnation. That that that guilty file, it's been ripped up.
It's shredded. It's gone. is casted as far as east is to the west.
He's forgiven me. Because of that, I now have to walk in that declaration and I have to remind myself. I got to remind other people sometimes, but I'm definitely got to minister and and and declare it to where when the demons when the devil when when the lies try to to to condemn me, I got to tell him, "No, Jesus, he set me free.
He paid the penalty. Go talk to him. He's the one who did it.
In Psalms 119 45-48, "And I will walk at liberty, for I seek your pre precepts. I will also speak of your testimonies before kings and shall not be ashamed. I shall delight in your commandments which I love and I shall lift up my hands to your commandments which I love and I will meditate on your statutes.
When you are a away from God, God it it you you don't want to do anything that God wants you to do. You're going to be disobedient. You're you're lawless.
You you're just you're just evil. But when God shows up and he res he renews your heart and he changes your mind and he he gives you a brand new life because you're born again through Christ Jesus. You you desire whatever he wants.
You You want to please him. You want to say, "I'll I'll I'll go. I'll do.
I'll say. I'll operate. I'll I'll live according to your ways because you're so good.
" When you've been forgiven by Jesus, you're ruined for the world. You can't enjoy sin anymore because of how good God is. Everything else is terrible.
It doesn't compare to the to the worth and to the value of living for God. So, we need to walk in this freedom. So, number one, we need to daily abide in God's word.
We need to let the truth renew our minds. And number two, we need to walk in the spirit. We need to pray continually.
Yield to the Holy Spirit's leading. And three, serve in love. Use the freedom to love others, not indulge in self.
As Galatians 5 says, for you were called to freedom, brethren, only to do not turn your freedom into the opportunity for the flesh. But go through love. But through love, serve one another.
That's Galatians 5:13. The other thing is accountability. Share with trusted believers for support.
We are built for community. We need the church. The church is where we get edified and equipped and even rebuked and corrected.
So we need to go to church. We need to be in fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. And then we need to stand firm.
When old patterns return, resist immediately with scripture. Ephesians 6:10-20, it says, "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the full armor of God so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist the the the devil, resisting the evil day, and having done everything to stand firm. Stand firm, therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness, and have showed your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
In addition to all, taking up the shield of faith in which you will be be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one and take the helmet of salvation and the and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God with all prayer and petition. Pray at all times for all the saints. And pray on behalf that earth that that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in chains.
That is that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly as I ought to. You notice it says put on the full armor of God. It never says to take it back off.
My son was a Marine and he served two ter uh two tours in Afghanistan. He didn't go in there wearing flipflops, shorts, and just, you know, wearing whatever he wanted. He knew he was in a war zone.
He knew he was a target for the enemy. And so he always had to wear his uniform that was protecting him from bullets or any shrapnel or any anything that would would would come to to to kill him as as he was out there serving. So it says that we have to gird our our our our waist with the the truth.
We need to to tighten it up. We need to get the truth really tight and we need to understand that our righteousness is is is protecting our heart. And it's it's it's through the gospel that we're made right.
And then it talks about having your feet ready to share the gospel, ready to dig in and and and and walk in his spirit. It also talks about grabbing the shield. And that shield is to protect us from the flaming darts of the enemy that it's going to try to target you and try to hit you.
And then it tells us to put on the helmet of of salvation to to really understand that you're saved. That way when the enemy and and tries to to to come at you, you're you're fully protected. All these are are are are defensive, but it tells us to have an offensive weapon, and that's the sword of the spirit.
And that's the word of God. We need to know how to swing the word of God. And what it tells us is that we should pray.
Pray for the saints. Pray for your brothers. Pray for your sisters in Christ Jesus.
Pray for them to have boldness. Some of them are chained. Some of them are risking their lives in places where they're they're not allowed to be Christian.
They're not allowed to open the Bible. They're not allowed to congregate together and pray and worship and and sing unto the Lord. they they can be uh killed for just declaring that Jesus is Lord.
That's who we need to be praying for. That they'd stay bold in those situations. One step that we can take this week to walk more freely is we need to understand that Christ didn't just save us from sin.
He saved us for freedom. Don't return to bondage. instead live as free children of God.
So, as I close, I want you to know that the Lord Jesus, he loves you and he's giving you these tools, these offensive weapons and defensive weapons. That way, you you're you're going to be a winner if you keep these on. Like I said, it says put on the full armor, God.
It doesn't ever say take it off. You got to always wear it till the end of your life. Keep it on daily.
You're walking with that that truth around your waist. You're you're you're understanding that you're in right relationship with God. And and it's it's right there for everybody to know and see and to understand that your feet they they they they're they're ready to walk out this gospel.
It says in in Romans that blessed are the feet that carry the gospel. Your feet are blessed because you're going to share the gospel. You could please share it out verbally, but also walk it out.
Live and and show love, show gentleness, kindness, self-control, all the things of the spirit that wants to flow out of your life daily. And always understand in your head, no matter what's going on, I am saved by God's grace. Not by works, not because I did this or that, but because of what Jesus did on the cross.
And then you grab that word daily to understand it, get better at it. As as it was mentioned that we need to practice this. We need to get good at at reading the word of God and then living out the word of God.
And always pray. Let me end with this prayer. this this week, this this this message of uh that that you just went through, I want you to instead of writing uh the questions and and answering.
Instead, I ask that you review this one more time and let it really sink in. That's your homework assignment for this one. Let me pray.
God, I thank you for the students that have been listening, that have been uh taking notes and and writing down these principles of how we can get out of this bondage and be set free by by Jesus. Help us to walk in your spirit this week. And and I pray that this lesson, it really brings liberty to those that have been bound by some of the sin and some of the darkness that they've been captured in, but now you've set them free.
So remind them of that. Let them not uh go back into those bonded places of bondage, but let them walk and live in freedom. I ask all this in Jesus name.
Amen.
